Saturday, August 07, 2010

How to subdue a German without handcuffs

I got to looking through W.E. Fairbairn's old WWII era combatives manual titled, GET TOUGH the other day. Interesting book with a lot of foundational info.

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It also has some interesting, varied, miscellaneous material, such as the method shown above for restraining a prisoner if you have a pole or sapling but no rope or cuffs. Interesting even if you don't expect to ever need to knowhow to do this.I would highly recommend not getting drunk and trying this restraint out on your buddies at a party!

Who writes this stuff anyway?

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